I’m currently hard at work on a couple of developments that require a framework of sorts. Not only code, but a versatile design framework that I can effectively speed up production for a niche market. The first of these I’ve nicknamed Buggy after the image I used in the initial design.
Essentially it’s working on a 12 column grid and can easily accommodate a neat one, two, three or four column layout. Work in thirds, quarters, halve it, or use the full width (960px) of the design. It’s a fixed width, centered design and I will likely make it into a WordPress theme in due course.
I started building this as an illustration for the course I’ll be teaching in web design for Hirt & Carter next year, and it’s grown so far beyond that. It’s good fun, and tests my skills and knowledge. Coding is going to be fun, but it’s so rigidly grid based, I suspect it’s going to be quite easy. Little do I know hey?
Nice one! I should dig out the framework I wrote for iMod before WordPress came to life, would be interesting
The web might not need another framework, but it will certainly be a wonderful learning/teaching exercise. Am I to assume you are doing this in XHTML with PHP?
Yeah, I agree that there isn’t a need for another framework, but this really is an internal project for me, as well as something to use in my course when teaching grid design, and the code associated with it. I scheme I’ll release it to the public anyway. Then people can decide if it’s useful or not.
For now it will be purely HTML/CSS. No need for PHP or Javascript at this stage. The final will likely include every type of HTML content (lists, forms, etc.) and the stylesheet has a blank item for every single element so it can be customised.